Reading is more important than writing.
ROBERTO BOLANOPoetry and prison have always been neighbors.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats
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We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
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Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
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One should read Borges more.
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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other, they returned to the village while the whole past of the universe fell on their heads.
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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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I’d obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).
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If you’re going to say what you want to say, you’re going to hear what you don’t want to hear.
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I’ll tell you, my friends: it’s all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love.
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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it’s knowledge and questions.
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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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